Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

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Senator Palmer Of Michigan is goinef
to be supported for the next Presidency
by all the women. They can't yotf.
but they have begun the campaign by
writing fifty letters a day to him. I
It is announced that all forts in Re,l-
GUM along the frontier of France have
received acomplete war armament. The
preparations have been even carried to
the extent Of nnobilizing the troops. !
There are about 100 gypsy familiess
| in winter quarters at Buffalo, and about
every tribe in the United States is re-,
presented. One tribe largely repre-,
sented at Buffalo is ruled by the Oldest
gypsy queen in the world. s
| The Fremdenblatt of Berlin tells Bel
GUM that it is her duty to strengthen
her army and be ready to defend het
| frontiers, and that it would be absurd
to depend upon the Powers to guaran-
tee her neutrality.
With the aid of $4,000 which she is
asking Congress to appropriate, Bostoll
hopes to complete monument to
Joseph Warren before New York
finishes its $1,0O0,000 monument to
Grant. 1t looks possible.
| sEx-Gov. Bate, the new United States
Senator from Tennessee, can present
first-class Democratic credentials: He
was at the battle of Bull Run, was
dangerously wounded at Shiloh, had
three horses killed under him at Chick
amauga, and was again wounded.
The fire afew days since by which Jes-
Sc Arnot's livery-stablein St. Louis was
destroyed also caused the destruction
| of the hearse On which the remains of
President Lincoln were conveyed to
the tomb. Four lives were lost, and
200 vehicles and 100 horses consumed.
San Francisco Alta: East Of the
mountains nearly fifty millions of people
are watching for a sag in the back
bone of winter, while in this blessed
land the spinal columns of spring is
arched like the back of black cat
singing base in a garden-wan concert.
Mrs. John F. Cleveland, the sister of
Horace Greeley, and her daughter have,
been in great want during the winter,
the property left them having melted
away. They have both been quite i'll,
and their friends were obliged to assist
them.
Mrs. Lille Prok of Ogalalla, Ore,
has not made any crazy quilts lately
nor done any Kensington work to speak
of, but SO f2r this winter she has killed
seven bears. 1t may be added that she
has her husband so well trained that he'
never stays out after 9 o'clock, and
| when the steak is burned or the coffee
| weak he never grumbles.
February II was the anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth, and had not
the assasin's pistol destroyed his pre-
cious life he would IN all probability
have been living today, having just
reached IS years great age for Z.
man of his robust form, temperate
habits, and sound health.
| Senator Jones of Nevada has struck
no such rich streaks of luck as lately
represented. He hashad no greatsuoke:
of fortune He has done we'll in bust
ness, but has had nothing like the sue
cess which the numerous paragraphs
printed have attributed to him.
Gov. Oliver Ames of Massachusetts,
is fold millionaire, with an income
of more than 100000 a year. Public,
sympathy is very strongly aroused in
behalf of his efforts to secure an in
crease in his salary as Governor from
$4,000 to 100000 year.
The Regent of Bavaria is making his
sons learn useful trades. Prince Ru-
pert, who will probably be King some
day, is apprenticed to a Munich wood
turner, and works daily at his bench
Prince Francis is learning to paint
houses, and Prince Charles is an indus
trious market-gardner.
Miss Julia j. Stenson was married
recently in New York to DR.. Henry P.
Loonlis. The bride wore dress more
than a century old. It was made for
her maternal great grandmother in177s,
and worn at her wedding. when
Alexander Hamilton was groomsman
and Gen. Washington and his staff
were present as guests. 1t was worn
for the second time by the brides
mother forty-tiv years ago.
| Bismarck's large consumption of
brandy during speeches in the Riech-,
stag has brought out the alleged fact
that he has been confirmed tippler for,
many years. After the Franco-Ger-
man War, when the treaty of Frank
fort was to be drawn up, NJ. Theirs was
in quandary as to whom he should
send as the representative of France.
NJ. er-Quertier, today a Senator'S
was finally hit upon because he could
drink as much as the Chancellor. =
! The Emperor Williams general con-
dition is much more serious. His
bladder and kidneys are much worse
and his frequent loss of blood greatly
alarms his physicians. he has been I'M
able to attend any festivities for some
time. This explains Bismarck's appeal
to the German people not to indulge n
noisy manifestations outside the palace
as is customary on the Emperor's birth